Once in a while, someone sees GNOME Do and screams bloody murder that I’ve “stolen” something from Quicksilver or that I’ve “cloned” or “forked” Quicksilver and simply renamed it and that I’m trying to hide the similarities. It’s not enough, these people cry, that I mention Quicksilver on Do’s homepage and discuss the technical differences [...]
It has been 41 days since we released GNOME Do 0.4.2, and today I’m honored to present GNOME Do 0.5: “The Fighting 0.5″. Without further ado, here are the main improvements and new features, accompanied by plenty of sexy screenshots (click for larger images).
First off, the Open with… action has been re-enabled!
The biggest new feature [...]
After spending eight months on GNOME Do, I gave a brief presentation (followed by a great, not-so-brief Q&A session) to an auditorium full of Computer Science students and faculty. In the presentation, I discuss five “rules” explicitly and implicitly imposed in undergraduate Computer Science coursework that I had to break in order to create GNOME [...]
Abstract
The typical computer user interacts with a number of different resources on her computer. These resources are accessed via many interfaces, including menus, location bars, icons, file browsers, and shortcut keys. We plan to consolidate these interfaces by creating an application that indexes items found in the user’s desktop environment (e.g. documents, contacts, applications, multimedia) [...]
The Do team is proud to announce the release of GNOME Do 0.4, our shiniest, smartest, and friendliest version yet.
Starting with the small changes, we’ve added an “Open plugins folder” menu item to Do’s main menu to make it even easier to install new plugins. Someday we’ll have superb plugin management via Mono.Addins, but until [...]
Do now automatically adjusts its color to match your desktop theme. Props to Jason Smith.
I just merged some work by Elliot Murphy into the official GNOME Do plugins branch that allows you to logout, shutdown, hibernate, etc. using the sheer power of muscle memory (facilitated by Do, of course!). So long, teensy weensy button in the corner of my screen. Adios, big, ugly lock screen/logout/restart window thingy.
The ability to perform actions on selected text, more advanced commands with modifier items, and a really cool new file search command. Check it out!
GNOME Do has had a pretty lackluster homepage for a couple of months. A few people have expressed interest in working on art or a website for Do, but nobody has really stepped up to the plate yet. In the meantime, I found a moderately pleasant, standards-compliant, free template. I tweaked it slightly, added a [...]
Athrun cooked up a nice Banshee plugin for Do based on my Rhythmbox one. It looks very promising. If you’re interested, go give it a spin and report any problems to Athrun!
My name is David Siegel and I'm a student at the University of Pennsylvania, currently studying Computer Science and Philosophy. I'm trying to share what I learn.